Work in progress and other activities
Work in Progress
The Urban Gender Premium in Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from South Asia with S. Asher, A. Bhowmick, P. Novosad, J. Rexer.
Measuring Social Norms in the Field with A. M. Munoz Boudet, T. Rahman, N. Warrinnier. Data collected in Nepal and in the field in Bangladesh.
Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring: Evidence from Pakistan with J. Lee, M. Mahmud, N. Sarma, A. Williams.
Evaluating the Impacts of Access to a Digital Jobs Platform and Skills Training on Female Domestic Workers with S. Anukriti, J. Lee, S. Sharma, A. Williams. In the field. Accepted, Pre-Analysis Plan, Journal of Development Economics.
Cultural Distance and Access to Economic Opportunity in India with S. Asher, A. Bhowmick, V. Metha, P. Novosad.
How Selling Online Is Affecting Informal Firms in South Asia with A. Dixit, A. Golla, A. Kotia, J. N. Lee, P. Narasimhan, and S. Sharma. (2023). Policy Research Working Paper Series 10306, The World Bank.
(Perceptions of) Inequality, Demand for Redistribution, and Group-Specific Public Goods: A Survey Experiment in India, with A. Dixit (2023). Policy Research Working Papers 10505, The World Bank. Newer version here.
Inequality of Opportunity and Investment Choices with M. Brock (2023). Policy Research Working Papers 10569, The World Bank.
Selected Presentations (in some cases with slides and recording)
2024
A long(ish) conversation on on trade, gender inequality, and economic growth in South Asia with Advocata Chair, Murtaza Jafferjee, in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on Feb 2024. Video of the conversation here and a presentation of the South Asia Development Update here with slides.
2019
WIDER Seminar Series: Towards a new social contract: taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia (23 Jan 2019). Recording (only audio); Slides.
OECD "New Approaches to Economic Challenges" Seminar Series: presentation of the report Towards a new social contract (22 Jan 2019, video and slides available here).
This section is work in progress
Blogs
In chronological order:
What we’re reading about job tenure in European labor markets Apr 12, 2023
Social Norms and Gender Equality in South Asia Oct 22, 2023
E-commerce is creating growth opportunities for small businesses in South Asia Feb 09, 2022
Son preference: Why we should care about it Oct 19, 2021
It takes two: Women's empowerment and couple concordance in South Asia Apr 13, 2021
COVID-19 has worsened the woes of South Asia's informal sector Dec 07, 2020
Do we need a new social contract? Apr 11, 2019
Is there a middle-class crisis in Europe? Mar 22, 2018
A three part blog:
Is there something wrong with us economists? Feb 23, 2017
In defense of the besieged economist (part II): The global middle class Mar 07, 2017
In defense of the besieged economist (part III): It’s not just economics Mar 30, 2017
Can aging be good for societies as well as individuals? Jun 17, 2015
Policy Writings
Forthcoming